• "My coolest job was when I was 12 and I was a dishwasher at the Three PigsBar-B-Que for $2.50 an hour. All the fleabags and stoners worked there, sothat's where I wanted to be." - Detour, November 1996.
• "I always had an understanding and a connection and a good relationshipwith gay men and women. And I don't want to censor myself about the fuckingsubject because I don't have a problem with gay or straight or any ofthat." - OUT, 2004
• "If I saw a man asn I was attracted... I would follow through withit." - OUT, 2004
• "It's funny. I don't like onions but I like onion rings. What's up with that?" - Nylon Guys, 2005
• "All of my roles have had their own unique set of challenges, and Ienjoy that in some perverse, masochistic way. I'm always dying though! Maybe Ihave some kind of feitish." - Nylon Guys, 2005
• "I showed up in LA with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, sonobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have."
• "High school is a dark place; I hung out with freaks."
• "It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebritygolf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, mybrother, a couple of friends."
• "I could care less about anybody knowing who I am, but I realize this ispart of the game. Maybe if I really hated this whole public thing, I would godo plays in Hoboken."
• "All those reports that I sleep in my closet. I don't know how people getthat. People are so obsessed with what you do at home."
• "You know you're really famous when there's rumors about you beinggay."
• "The idea that I would ever end up on David Letterman or Jay Leno ishorrifying. I am such a freak in comparison to most other twenty-five-year-oldguys. I have no idea what other people are thinking. I'm not really intouch."
• "Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When Iwas in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making theteam."
• "If I was ever a teen idol, I'd kill myself."
• "I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot ofpainters and photographers and had a very artistic upbringing. And I fantasizedabout being a drug-dealer when I was a kid. I thought it would be a goodopportunity; I knew that the market would be strong. Is that bizarre?"
• "I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had agreat family, a great brother and mother."
• "I stole a lot when I was a kid, but I wouldn't steal one candy; I'd takethe whole carton. I also used to like to break into other people's houses andsit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's emptyhouse."
• "One memory I have is there were a lot of dogs at this one place and mybrother got in a horrific fight with a dog and the dog bit his toe off. Theybecame fast friends after that. He lost a toe and gained a friend."
• "I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have asupercomputer I built over the years out of different computers."
• "Years ago, there was a rumor going around that I was dead because I wasworking in Ireland. Once I got back, people who seemed very upset would come upto me and say, "We thought you were dead!"
• "I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted towork."
• "That's what the problem is with the internet, this great escape that wehave, everything automatically becomes `fact'!"
• "I spent some time in prison. Just the normal stuff. Listen, I've had somuch edge in my life, I don't need to contrive any. I'm not gonna front like MrAngst."
• "I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, paintersand people that were in theatre. Just having the art-communal hippie experienceas a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creativeexperience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt anyof that kind of growth."
• "We're like proud parents... or your local priest..."
• "I knew what I was walking into, and I knew that I was going to get myass kicked, and it would have been much easier to just continue making films,but I've been making music since I was a kid and I certainly wasn't going tolet that stop me from pursuing my dreams..."
• "I never look at myself as a closet actor wanting to make music or acloset musician wanting to act -- I'm very proud to do both and I don't put oneabove the other, I'm very grateful and excited by both opportunities -- it'sreally a unique opportunity to do both."
• "I'm a vagabond."
• "I live by the rule that you should follow your dreams...no matter whatyou do, you should follow your dreams"
• "I don't like doing interviews. I'm not pretending to be somesuperneurotic, hiding in my closet. I could care less about anybody knowing whoI am, but I realize this is part of the game. Maybe if I really hated thiswhole public thing, I would go do plays in Hoboken."
• "I'm rarely proud of what I've done. I hated everything I did on 'MySo-Called Life'. It was a great show, no thanks to me. But I think there's somepretty decent moments in 'Prefontaine'. I worked really, really hard at therunning. I trained really hard. And I worked really hard to look likehim."
• "I'm such a freak in comparison to most other twenty-five-year-old guys.I have no idea what other people are thinking. I'm not really in touch."
• "I've made, I think, three movies in the last five years," he says."I doubt if anyone in this town would advise that."
• "I'm pretty masochistic. I kill myself for my craft - Literally"
• "I use it [drink] as a mouthwash"
• "As artists, it's our job to delve into the uncomfortable, the difficultand the challenging."
• "I've always had a very strong interest in Asian culture, It alwaysstruck a deep chord in me, and some of my favorite films are Kurosawa's'Kagemusha' and 'Ran,' and Bertolucci's 'The Last Emperor.' And I thought thatthe passion of the people, the history and the culture would be a really strongfoundation for the song ["From Yesterday"].”
